Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

General were not participating in data sharing. As data sharing initiatives gain momentum, including TEFCA nationally and the Data Exchange Framework in California, it’s an important reminder that data sharing advancement is more than a policy or technological discussion.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the central technology pillar for healthcare organizations. EHRs are vital to both clinical and administrative operations. Because of that, we wanted to dedicate an entire article to where EHRs are headed in 2023. What is your prediction for the EHR market in 2023?

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Three experts from AI, analytics and population health IT vendor Health Catalyst share their predictions, which can help CIOs and other health leaders prepare for the year ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Lead Data Architect – Healthcare position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Vytalize Health and is remote in the US. You will work across our ecosystem, ensuring consistency or representation and accuracy of data dictionaries.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exec Summary: The intersection of large language models (LLMs), electronic health records (EHRs), and social determinants of health (SDoH) holds immense potential for revolutionising healthcare delivery and improving population health outcomes. Robust data governance and anonymisation techniques are essential.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dr. Mark Pratt , Chief Medical Officer at Altera Digital Health The patient quietly sits while her physician delves into the data stored in her electronic health record, combing through different screens for specific information. Here’s how. It’s past time to deliver on this.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

EHR migrations are becoming more common as many healthcare organizations switch EHRs or choose to upgrade to a new version of their EHR. That was the situation Magnolia Regional Health Center found themselves in when they migrated to a new version of the MEDITECH EHR.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 12, 2024

This ecosystem enables users to make CharmHealth’s EHR platform truly their own, offering a wide array of tools designed to augment and customize the functionality of the EHR system according to individual needs. CharmHealthApps allows EHR vendors to register and create accounts on the platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Design, implement, maintain and enhance data workflows, quality assurance protocols, analytical processes, and reporting products (i.e. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News Interoperability: Where it's headed, and where IT leaders will be investing Five CIOs, a COO and a CMIO chart a course for the complex demands of data exchange, and discuss. By Bill Siwicki | November 01, 2021. By Bill Siwicki | October 18, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

CommonWell was formed 11 years ago from a consortium of major EHR vendors to carry out the mandate for interoperable data exchange in the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts. CommonWell has been working with some of these clients to look at innovative data workflows. and their journey to TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. Job #1 for an EHR “An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman stated emphatically.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2020

It would be nice if the analytics packages included with EHRs did exactly what you hoped they would do. However, for many health IT leaders these analytics platforms just aren’t cutting it, if the results of a recent survey are […]. After all, you want the various capabilities you manage to play nicely with one another.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

They have received the Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT) designation from the ONC. In addition, ACOs and other value-based programs have to share data to get financial benefit. ” Watch the video for more on the potential for achieving ROI through digital sharing of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share. The AI actively guides conversations, ensuring compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

There were a number of Health IT companies that came by at #ViVE2023 to share their latest product developments and company news. Here is what CPSI , Linus Health , Imprivata , Mediktor , and Fortified Health Security had to say. Be sure to check out all of our coverage of the ViVE conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2024

Healthcare has always relied on data. What’s changed is the explosion of data in healthcare and the availability of this data to clinicians as well as a whole host of healthcare professionals. Payers can extract data for measures such as severity of disease and quality measures.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Under supervision, the incumbent maintains clinical nursing and provider modules within the electronic health record (EHR), assists with staff education pertinent to clinical information technology, performs data analysis, and assists with assessment, implementation and evaluation of new technology.

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KevinMD

AUGUST 18, 2018

The trouble began when I needed to open the electronic health record (EHR) system for the tenth time that day. EHRs have significantly changed the way we practice medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At Lifepoint Health, she was faced with many of the health IT “realities” that multiple hospitals and health systems across the nation are dealing with. The  The main issue being legacy technologies that don’t easily communicate with each other and don’t allow for easy access to clinical data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As I look at healthcare, it seems like everyone is chasing the data. Every health IT company is a data company or at least they think they are. And in many ways, every health IT company is a data company. Everything from medical devices to wearables to EHR to labs to phones to scrubs are […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2020

I always like to gather insights from practicing clinical informaticists, whose job puts them at the crossroads where health IT and care delivery meet. I particularly like doing so when they find a way to share these insights in a user-friendly way. For this reason, I was delighted to discover a recent blog entry by […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here's what execs from some leading health IT vendors think about the most pressing challenges – and big opportunities – of the year ahead. " Going forward, using AI-powered big data analytics to optimize the supply chain is going to be essential, said Byczkowski. " EHRs: Automation can help.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Greenway Health , a leading ambulatory EHR provider, has added new features to accommodate this non-medical information and make recommendations based on that data. EHRs hold a lot of data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. The patient is worried about privacy and data security. Here’s what I wrote.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? A solid foundation in data infrastructure, security, and privacy protocols is crucial for anyone in 2024 looking to succeed in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs. According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2020

While many EHR projects were put on hold or at least slowed down during COVID-19, we’re starting to see many of these projects revving back up. Just because COVID-19 happened doesn’t mean it changed the fact that many healthcare organizations need to upgrade and switch out their EHR software or consolidate onto one EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 27, 2023 News AI-enabled efficiencies can improve patient outcomes and reduce clinician burnout "By prioritizing healthy data management practices through the deployment of AI, IT leaders. Here's how some pioneering health IT leaders are using AI today, and how they're planning for the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What health IT trend has you concerned? Dr. Sameer Ather, Co-Founder and CEO at XpertDox A major concern in health IT is cybersecurity. The increase in digital data handling along with AI technologies raises the stakes for data breaches. Who owns the data?” Both from a cyber security and privacy point of view.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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